Right now, I'm simply gauging interest. This op still needs a lot of planning. If you are interested in roleplaying a police officer in a realistic hostage situation, feel free to sound off.

I also wanted to mention, my vision in the Op is to be the first in a SERIES. While there are a lot of people who want to play SWAT, you really can't just show up and do it. You need training and experience. The purpose of Op: Sunshine is to help provide that training and experience.

Prior to this game, I want to set up a "training day" for the police officers, to help them get ready. Your "experience" comes with the game itself. After that, there will be more to come.

Participation is the key to success. Watch this space for updates in the next few months.

Put me down for Negotiater, Police Chief, or Hostage. (Unless you find you need another terrorist).

Doc Holliday: My hypocrisy goes only so far.
Somewhere out there is 6mm of plastic with your name on it.
A strong arguement attacks the merits of a point. A weak arguement attacks the person who established the point.

This really sounds like alot of fun - if it's on a day I can in any way make it count me in! I'll play whatever role you need - are the negotiators likely to see any actual action? I was in the same undergrad negotiation class as Trippy, and a negotiator sounds like it would be great fun!

Yah, I would have little trouble getting blue BDUs if necessary - but since black is also a common police color (though, I admit, more so for SWAT that patrol police) I was hoping I could get away with that. If black is acceptable, that would be nice, if not it's no biggie I can get some blues.

DFSM wrote:But police officers usually have a shotgun and/or patrol carbine with them, so maybe guns besides pistols will come into play sometime.

While that may be true today, that has only become standard practice in the 10 (or so) years, and if I'm not mistaken this scenario is supposed to be set in the 80s. While in most patrol cars shotguns were standard back then carbines were not. Back then even SWAT team's long guns usually only consisted of shotguns & sub-machine guns (with the exception of snipers).

A lot of PD's (especially metro PDs) didn't even have shotguns or carbines in every unit until after 9/11. Even still, lots of cars don't have any more weapons than what the officer is carrying (i.e. a regular pistol and a small backup pistol usually)

Yeah. Me too. I saw it on the History Channel (Modern Marvels) and how the Firearms evolved and who used them. It said that soon after that incident the the local PD was given AR15s and that soon spread across the country (Not all of the country).

It did to an extent but, to date, there are a LOT of P.D.s across the country that don't have more than a shotgun in regular patrol cars.
Most of the federal funding goes to SWAT and disaster/emergency management training & equipment. What little (if any) left over money trickles down to the patrol level.